Well, today's art got a little bit better …

I think this is a picture of my shell, which is feeling cut open….

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” — Kahlil Gibran

“Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“”maggie and millie and molly and may”

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

millie befriended a stranded star
who’s rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.”

— E. E. Cummings